A father who snatched his newborn daughter from her mother and then began a three-hour trip home with an empty bottle and the child wrapped in a baby blanket did not neglect the child in the eyes of the law, a Brooklyn appellate court found.
“The father’s taking of the child and ensuing travels, although impulsive and misguided, do not ‘depict lack of attention to the special needs of a newborn,’ or fall below the statutory minimum degree of care,” according to the Appellate Division, Second Department.
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